Myles na gCopaleen blamed Dinneen’s Dictionary for his decision to stop writing columns in Irish
– Frank McNally on Dinneen’s Dictionary and the Dáil row about unparliamentary IrishAll fired up – Ita O’Kelly on keeping the homes fires burning“The Irish lexicographer Dinneen, considered in vacuo is, heaven knows, funny enough. He keeps standing on his head, denying stoutly that piléar means bullet and asserting that it means ‘an inert thing or person’. Nothing stumps him. He will promise the sun, moon, and stars to anybody who will catch him out. And well he may.means moon.
It’s possible the great satirist was exaggerating a little here. In fact, whatever about saying it of Mary Lou McDonald, the Taoiseach might be on safer ground claiming that Myles na gCopaleen was “ag insint bréaga” and that the real reason for abandoning bilingualism was that he wanted more people to read him.
Mind you, Myles was adept at having it both ways when it suited. At least before Dinneen sapped his confidence about what Irish words meant, the columnist was also capable of attributing a “steely, latinistic” exactitude to the language, of which English was incapable.
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